A watershed is the land area that drains to a single body of water such a as stream, lake, wetland or underground aquifer. The boundary of a watershed is defined by the highest elevations surrounding the body of water. A drop of water falling outside of the boundary will drain to another watershed.

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Approximately 1,400 Lincoln Parish utility customers were still without electricity this morning, as a result of unexpected straight-line winds that whipped across much of North Central Louisiana Thursday night.

Gusts of up to 70 mph caused downed trees and power lines. Limbs and other debris falling into the lines caused most of the outages, spokespeople for area electric utilities said.

“The high wind and lighting kind of did a number on us,” Roderick Worthy, customer service manager with Entergy, said this morning.

The Louisiana Tech University Presidential Search Committee met for the first time Tuesday afternoon to discuss the procedures and policies for the search process to replace current President Dan Reneau and to get some feedback from the local community about what they want in the replacement.

While the search will continue for the next few months, many community members and Tech representatives made it very clear that they do have someone in mind to replace Tech’s familiar president, and it’s with a candidate who is already very familiar with the university — Les Guice, vice president for Tech’s Research and Development and former dean of the College of Engineering and Science.

Whether it’s antique guns, unique knives or collectible coins, area residents will have the opportunity to buy, sell or trade for them on Saturday and Sunday when the 2012 Ruston Gun and Knife Show fills the Civic Center.

Ruston-Lincoln Chamber of Commerce President Scott Terry said the Civic Center will showcase more than 110 different vendor spaces, with sellers from four different states providing merchandise during the two-day event.

GRAMBLING — Grambling State University celebrated its past Friday, while also looking ahead to its future.

The university kicked off its yearlong 110th anniversary celebration with a breakfast in the Black and Gold Room of the Favrot Student Union that culminated with youngsters from Alma J. Brown Elementary School on the GSU campus releasing 110 black and gold helium-filled balloons into a sunny morning sky.

“Happy birthyear,” GSU president Frank Pogue said to start the morning. “Imagine what Charles P. Adams must have looked like to blacks and whites alike 110 years ago when he walked into a room asking for money to start a black college. They must have thought he was crazy. Grambling State University derived from farmers in the area wanting to educate other blacks. It was a revolutionary idea at the time. It was the start of the Civil Rights Movement. I don’t know of any other variable that allows success more than access to education. It was revolutionary that this man was talking about educating the sons and daughters of former slaves.